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Offline Svennn

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Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« on: 28 July 2010, 12:20:11 PM »
Part of a commission I am working through at present. The client will be basing them and also came up with the colour scheme for the bad guys. I was so tempted to paint the word "BOMB" on the one but resisted ;D





Went with a crazy experiment on the silk smoking jacket, not totally convinced about it but reasonably happy - certainly a bit different.

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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #1 on: 28 July 2010, 12:24:19 PM »
Lovely. I particularly like the Henchmen and how their coats are done 8)
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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #2 on: 28 July 2010, 12:47:29 PM »
Jolly splendid stuff old boy. ;D  I am sure the "Client" must be delighted with these. ;)
I love the silk smoking jacket so much. I am now wondering whether I can find one in a 38 regular :D
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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #3 on: 28 July 2010, 12:53:42 PM »
Excellent.   :)

Why such tiny photos though?

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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #4 on: 28 July 2010, 01:08:14 PM »
Looks great and the silk shirt looks good, I think it must be hard to make real silk look.

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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #5 on: 28 July 2010, 01:25:10 PM »
Not sure how it looks in real life, but the silk jacket in the piccie is BRILLIANT! Hmm, more ways than one....  ;)

Have to agree that the hench folk are smashing.

Of course, the fellow in black is quite good especially the shading on the pants, but merely outshined by the others. There's those 'shiny' references again...

Is the silk simply highlit drybrush, or is it metallic?

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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #6 on: 28 July 2010, 01:32:14 PM »
Bloody great work as usual Svennn. The smoking jacket is excellent on many levels.  :-*

The colour scheme for the henchmen works well, quite an inspired colour scheme methinks  ;).
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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #7 on: 28 July 2010, 08:52:22 PM »

Went with a crazy experiment on the silk smoking jacket, not totally convinced about it but reasonably happy - certainly a bit different.


Looks dashed effective to me.
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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #8 on: 28 July 2010, 10:43:30 PM »
Wuenderbar!!
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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #9 on: 28 July 2010, 11:44:58 PM »
Excellent work, the smoking jacket is lovely.
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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #10 on: 28 July 2010, 11:55:49 PM »
Love the Henchmen!!!!
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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #11 on: 29 July 2010, 12:01:06 AM »
 :-* Excellent! The smoking jacket works for me but green's just not my colour  ;)

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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #12 on: 29 July 2010, 04:07:01 AM »
Outstanding!

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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #13 on: 29 July 2010, 08:20:52 AM »
:-* Excellent! The smoking jacket works for me but green's just not my colour  ;)

How did ya' do it?......... c'mon spill  8)

I'd guess silver mixed in with the green, as GW have done in the past for some of their "Eavy Metal"-painted Lord Of The Rings figures.

He does look great and I'd like to see a close-up. Shame about the "BOMB" though  ;)

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Re: Sherlock, Slippers & some Henchmen
« Reply #14 on: 29 July 2010, 08:34:28 AM »
Lovely work Svennn. The smoking Jacket is, well, really smoking lol


Bloody great work as usual Svennn. The smoking jacket is excellent on many levels.  :-*

The colour scheme for the henchmen works well, quite an inspired colour scheme methinks  ;).
Do we detect some smug, self congratulations there lol
Could these be heading to deepest darkest Shropshire ???

 

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